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| Artist = [[Phillip Phillips]]
| Artist = [[Phillip Phillips]]
| Album = [[The World from the Side of the Moon]]
| Album = [[The World from the Side of the Moon]]
| Released = May 23, 2012<ref>{{cite web |url=https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/home-american-idol-performance/id529347923?i=529348009 |title=Home |publisher=iTunes |date=May 23, 2012 }}</ref>
| Released = June 7, 2012<ref>https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/home-single/id533998199</ref>
| Format = [[Music download|Digital download]]
| Format = [[Music download|Digital download]]
| Recorded = 2012
| Recorded = 2012
| Genre = [[Indie folk]]{{Citation needed|date=May 2012}}
| Genre = [[Indie folk]]{{Citation needed|date=May 2012}}
| Length = 3:28
| Length = 3:28
| Label = [[19 Entertainment|19]], [[Interscope Records|Interscope]]
| Label = [[19 Entertainment|19]]
| Writer = Drew Pearson, [[Greg Holden]]
| Writer = Drew Pearson, [[Greg Holden]]
| Producer = Drew Pearson
| Producer = Drew Pearson
| Last single =
| This single = "'''Home'''"<br />(2012)
| This single = "'''Home'''"<br />(2012)
| Next single =
| Next single =
| Misc =
}}
}}


"'''Home'''" is the debut single and coronation song from ''[[American Idol]]'' [[American Idol (season 11)|season 11]] winner [[Phillip Phillips]]. The song was co-written by Drew Pearson and [[Greg Holden]], and produced by Drew Pearson.<ref>[http://www.rickey.org/phillip-phillips-coronation-song-home-by-drew-pearson-and-greg-holden/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=phillip-phillips-coronation-song-home-by-drew-pearson-and-greg-holden Rickey.com: Phillip Phillips coronation song ‘Home’ by Drew Pearson and Greg Holden]</ref>
"'''Home'''" is the debut single and coronation song from ''[[American Idol]]'' [[American Idol (season 11)|season 11]] winner [[Phillip Phillips]]. The song was co-written by Drew Pearson and [[Greg Holden]], and produced by Drew Pearson.<ref>[http://www.rickey.org/phillip-phillips-coronation-song-home-by-drew-pearson-and-greg-holden/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=phillip-phillips-coronation-song-home-by-drew-pearson-and-greg-holden Rickey.com: Phillip Phillips coronation song ‘Home’ by Drew Pearson and Greg Holden]</ref>


Phillips first performed the song on the season's final performance night on May 22, 2012, and then again on the finale after he was declared the winner. His recording of "Home" was released as a single on May 23, 2012 and included as a track on the ''American Idol Season Finale - Season 11 EP''. The single debuted at No. 10 on the [[Billboard Hot 100]] with a first week sales figure of 278,000 downloads.<ref name="billboard may 2012"/> It has the biggest digital sales week for any ''Idol'' winner's coronation song,<ref name="cauldfied">{{cite web|title=Phillip Phillips Makes 'Idol' History as 'Home' Sells 278,000 Downloads |url=http://www.billboard.com/news/phillip-phillips-makes-idol-history-as-home-1007187752.story#/news/phillip-phillips-makes-idol-history-as-home-1007187752.story |last=Caulfield |first=Keith |publisher=Billboard |date=2012-05-30 |accessdate=May 30, 2012}}</ref> and it became the best selling of all coronation songs.<ref name="yahoo-oct2012">{{cite news |url=http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart-watch/chart-watch-extra-american-idol-top-dozen-171239977.html |title=Chart Watch Extra: Phillip Phillips’ Idol Record |author=Paul Grein |work=Chart Watch |publisher= Yahoo Music |date=October 24, 2012 |accessdate=October 24, 2012 }}</ref> The song will also be included on his debut album, ''[[The World from the Side of the Moon]]''.
Phillips first performed the song on the season's final performance night on May 22, 2012, and then again on the finale after he was declared the winner. His recording of "Home" was released as a single on June 7, 2012 and included as a track on the ''American Idol Season Finale - Season 11 EP''. The single debuted at No. 10 on the [[Billboard Hot 100]] with a first week sales figure of 278,000 downloads.<ref name="billboard may 2012"/> It has the biggest digital sales week for any ''Idol'' winner's coronation song,<ref name="cauldfied">{{cite web|title=Phillip Phillips Makes 'Idol' History as 'Home' Sells 278,000 Downloads |url=http://www.billboard.com/news/phillip-phillips-makes-idol-history-as-home-1007187752.story#/news/phillip-phillips-makes-idol-history-as-home-1007187752.story |last=Caulfield |first=Keith |publisher=Billboard |date=2012-05-30 |accessdate=May 30, 2012}}</ref> and it became the best selling of all coronation songs.<ref name="yahoo-oct2012">{{cite news |url=http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart-watch/chart-watch-extra-american-idol-top-dozen-171239977.html |title=Chart Watch Extra: Phillip Phillips’ Idol Record |author=Paul Grein |work=Chart Watch |publisher= Yahoo Music |date=October 24, 2012 |accessdate=October 24, 2012 }}</ref> The song will also be included on his debut album, ''[[The World from the Side of the Moon]]''.


==Background ==
==Background ==
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==Critical reception==
==Critical reception==
The song "Home" has received positive reviews. Phillips received a standing ovation- the only one of the night- from the judges after his first performance of the song. [[Randy Jackson]] said, "Dude, I love the song, I love the production. Everything about that was perfect." [[Jennifer Lopez]] said, "That was a Phillip song and there is nothing on the radio that sounds like that!" Similarly, [[Steven Tyler]] said, "By virtue of your vulnerability and style, you made the world your home."

Professional music reviews have praised the song unanimously, calling it one of the best American Idol coronation songs of all time. <ref> [http://idolator.com/6523632/phillip-phillips-american-idol-coronation-songhome-review Phillip Phillips’ “Home”: Review Revue] </ref>
Professional music reviews have praised the song unanimously, calling it one of the best American Idol coronation songs of all time. <ref> [http://idolator.com/6523632/phillip-phillips-american-idol-coronation-songhome-review Phillip Phillips’ “Home”: Review Revue] </ref>
Popdust gave it a good review saying, "it runs with the necessary thematic elements needed to market someone who came from a reality competition show, while picking up more interesting styles that focus on instrumentals and arrangement in addition to vocals."

EW Music Mix gave the song an A-, and likened it to [[Mumford & Sons]] and [[Fleet Foxes]]. They added, "The triumphant track is easily the coolest, most relevant song ever used as a reality TV coronation song."

Spin, who titled their post called the tune "shockingly good — especially for an Idol coronation song, which have a tendency to be horrifyingly embarrassing."


==Chart performance==
==Chart performance==
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==Music video==
==Music video==
The music video was directed by Joseph Toman.<ref>{{citeweb|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/idol-worship/american-idol-phillip-phillips-home-video-357872|title='American Idol' Winner Phillip Phillips Premieres 'Home' Video |date=2012-08-02|accessdate=2012-08-03}}</ref>. The video premiered on his [[Vevo]] site on August 2, 2012. Much of the video interweaves stunning black-and-white imagery of American landscapes with footage of Phillips jamming on the tour bus. Equally vital, adds the director, was to give a sense of journey, both for the viewer and the star. "The idea of feeling home, at peace, even when you can't actually be 'home.' "
The music video was directed by Joseph Toman.<ref>{{citeweb|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/idol-worship/american-idol-phillip-phillips-home-video-357872|title='American Idol' Winner Phillip Phillips Premieres 'Home' Video |date=2012-08-02|accessdate=2012-08-03}}</ref>


==In popular culture==
==In popular culture==
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==Release history==
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| 19 Recordings, Inc
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Revision as of 18:37, 9 November 2012

"Home"
Song

"Home" is the debut single and coronation song from American Idol season 11 winner Phillip Phillips. The song was co-written by Drew Pearson and Greg Holden, and produced by Drew Pearson.[2]

Phillips first performed the song on the season's final performance night on May 22, 2012, and then again on the finale after he was declared the winner. His recording of "Home" was released as a single on June 7, 2012 and included as a track on the American Idol Season Finale - Season 11 EP. The single debuted at No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 with a first week sales figure of 278,000 downloads.[3] It has the biggest digital sales week for any Idol winner's coronation song,[4] and it became the best selling of all coronation songs.[5] The song will also be included on his debut album, The World from the Side of the Moon.

Background

The song was written by Drew Pearson and Greg Holden, and chosen by Jimmy Iovine as a coronation song for the eventual winner of Season 11 of American Idol, Phillip Phillips. According to Drew Pearson, it was originally intended for Greg Holden, but was submitted to Idol as a possible finale number by Pearson's publishing company, Pulse Recordings.[6][7] Pearson and Holden had previously not met before but were brought together to write the song, with Holden the primary lyricist.[8] The song was written in three hours and a demo recorded. Holden had performed the song in his tour, but he expressed no intention of releasing his recording of the song.[8][9] Pearson cited Mumford & Sons, Arcade Fire and a few Irish bands as influences for the song.[6]

However, Phillip said that while the song and its writers are "really good", "it's not really something I would write".[10] He also revealed that he had wanted to use a song he co-wrote with his brother-in-law, "Drive Me," as the coronation song.[11] In interviews after the finale, he said, "The song that I did tonight that supposedly is my single, it's not really my single, I told them it's not my single."[6] He also said, "I have my own stories to tell," and added "[but] I couldn’t do my song [on the finale]; we just didn’t have enough time." Philip stated that he writes songs in the "jazz and rock alternative sound; not really rock-rock."[6] Later he said he was "starting to grow a connection" with the song,[12] and that "I kind of sing it like me, and on the guitar I do some different strummings on some parts, so it's coming along."[13]

Critical reception

Professional music reviews have praised the song unanimously, calling it one of the best American Idol coronation songs of all time. [14]

Chart performance

"Home" debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 10, the first time in four years a coronation single from an American Idol winner reach the top 10 since David Cook's single "The Time of My Life" debuted at No. 3.[3] It sold 278,000 the first week, which is the biggest digital sales week for a winner's coronation song, surpassing David Cook's "Time of My Life" first week sales of 236,000 in 2008, and is also the second-best digital sales week ever for any "Idol" contestant, behind Kelly Clarkson's 2009 song "My Life Would Suck Without You" which sold 280,000 in its debut week.[4] The song was later used in the NBC coverage of the 2012 Summer Olympics, and the song reentered the Hot 100 at 84 on August 1 on the strength of one night boost in sales after its first airing.[15] The song then sold over 105,000 copies in a span of the three days the next week,[16] and totalled 228,000 for the week.[17][18] It also re-entered the Top 10 and reached a new high of No. 9 in the Hot 100 chart the same week,[19] the first song to reach the Hot 100's Top 10 in separate chart runs in a single calendar year.[20] The following week its sales exceeded a million.[21]

Music video

The music video was directed by Joseph Toman.[22]

Phillips performed this song during the 36th Annual Capitol Fourth on July 4, 2012.[23] The song was used in the trailer for the film Trouble with the Curve.[24][12] The song is also currently being used in radio spots for American Family Insurance.[25]

Use in the Olympics

The song was sampled in the segment on US women gymnastics during the 2012 United States Olympic Trials, then again during the 2012 London Olympics coverage on NBC.[26][27] Phillips commented "It's an honor for them to use that song, and I'm so proud of it and how well it has done."[28]

Due to the use of song in the Olympics, many radio stations started playing their own versions of the song, which are remixes interspersed with highlights from the Olympics.[29][30]

Charts and certifications

References

  1. ^ https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/home-single/id533998199
  2. ^ Rickey.com: Phillip Phillips coronation song ‘Home’ by Drew Pearson and Greg Holden
  3. ^ a b Trust, Gary (2012-05-30). "Phillip Phillips Storms Hot 100's Top 10, Gotye Has Year's Longest-Running No. 1". Chart Beat. Billboard. Retrieved May 30, 2012.
  4. ^ a b Caulfield, Keith (2012-05-30). "Phillip Phillips Makes 'Idol' History as 'Home' Sells 278,000 Downloads". Billboard. Retrieved May 30, 2012.
  5. ^ Paul Grein (October 24, 2012). "Chart Watch Extra: Phillip Phillips' Idol Record". Chart Watch. Yahoo Music. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
  6. ^ a b c d Shirley Halperin (May 22, 2012). "'American Idol': The Story Behind Phillip Phillips' Coronation Song (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 26, 2012. Cite error: The named reference "THR" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  7. ^ "Drew Pearson / Phillip Phillips – #1". Pulse Recording.
  8. ^ a b Phil Gallo (June 16, 2012). "Home is Where the Cash is". Billboard.
  9. ^ Michele Amabile Angermiller (6/18/2012). "Songwriter Greg Holden Discusses the Success of Phillip Phillips' 'Home'". The Hollywood Reporter. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  10. ^ Kara Warner (May 23, 2012). "Phillip Phillips won't take credit for 'Home' at 'American Idol' finale". MTV.
  11. ^ "Phillip Phillips Feeling Right At Home During Summer Olympics", The Associated Press, August 9, 2012 {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |publiser= ignored (|publisher= suggested) (help)
  12. ^ a b Mesfin Fekadu (August 12, 2012). "Debut single gives 'American Idol' winner Phillip Phillips Olympic exposure". The Associated Press. News Sentinel.
  13. ^ Lyndsey Parker (August 1, 2012), "Phillip Phillips Scores Olympic Gold Single With "Home"", Reality Rocks, Yahoo Music, retrieved August 15, 2012
  14. ^ Phillip Phillips’ “Home”: Review Revue
  15. ^ Keith Caulfield (2012-08-02). "Phillip Phillips' 'Home' Sales Surge Thanks to Olympic Gymnasts". Retrieved 2012-08-03.
  16. ^ Larry Carroll (August 3, 2012). "2012 Summer Olympics: 'American Idol' winner Phillip Phillips enjoying his Olympic-fueled resurgence to the top of the charts". Zap2it.
  17. ^ Paul Grein (August 8, 2012). "Week Ending Aug. 5, 2012. Songs: Phillip Phillips Is "Home"". Chart Watch. Yahoo Music. Retrieved August 9, 2012.
  18. ^ Keith Caulfield (August 08, 2012). "Rick Ross Scores Fourth No. 1 Album with 'God Forgives, I Don't'". Billboard. Retrieved August 08, 2012. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help)
  19. ^ a b Silvio Pietroluongo (August 08, 2012). "Carly Rae Jepsen Claims Longest Hot 100 No. 1 Run of 2012". Billboard. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  20. ^ Gary Trust (August 14, 2012). "Ask Billboard: Phillip Phillips Goes 'Home' To Hot 100's Top 10". Billboard. Retrieved August 15, 2012.
  21. ^ Gary Trust (August 15, 2012). "Flo Rida's 'Whistle' Works Way to Top of Hot 100". Billboard. Retrieved August 15, 2012.
  22. ^ "'American Idol' Winner Phillip Phillips Premieres 'Home' Video". 2012-08-02. Retrieved 2012-08-03.
  23. ^ Brett Zongker (June 18, 2012). "'A Capitol Fourth' 2012: Phillip Phillips, 'Idol' Winner, To Make Comeback In D.C." Huffington Post.
  24. ^ "'American Idol' winner Phillip Phillips gets Olympic exposure with debut single 'Home'". The Washington Post. August 9, 2012. Retrieved August 10, 2012.
  25. ^ Michele Amabile Angermiller (10-4-2012). "Phillip Phillips' 'Home': A Hit at Radio, in Movies and Middle School Choirs (Video)". The Hollywood Reporter. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  26. ^ Grady Smith (July 30, 2012). "UPDATE: Phillip Phillips' 'Home' hits No. 1 on iTunes chart following Olympic placement". EW.com.
  27. ^ Grady Smith (August 9, 2012). "How Phillip Phillips' song 'Home' was chosen for the Olympics". EW.com. Retrieved August 9, 2012.
  28. ^ Hal Boedeker (August, 2 2012). "American Idol': Phillip Phillips finds 'Home' success 'pretty insane'". Orlando Sentinel. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  29. ^ "Phillip Phillips' "Home" Strikes Gold". FMQB. August 9, 2012. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  30. ^ "Phillip Phillips "HOME" Olympic Remix". August 9, 2012. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |publiser= ignored (|publisher= suggested) (help)
  31. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100#/song/phillip-phillips/home/29773411
  32. ^ http://www.tonlist.is/Music/Chartlist/514/
  33. ^ http://www.billboard.com/column/chartbeat#/column/chartbeat/chart-highlights-mariah-carey-returns-to-1007863982.story
  34. ^ www.billboard.com/news#/column/chartbeat/chart-highlights-prince-returns-with-rnr-1007956492.story
  35. ^ "Phillip Phillips chart history". Billboard.
  36. ^ http://www.billboard.com/column/chartbeat/chart-highlights-demi-lovato-leaps-to-no-1007921352.story
  37. ^ Mansfield, Brian (2012-11-07). "Carrie Underwood leads Idol sales after post-CMA bump". Idol Chatter. USA Today. Retrieved November 7, 2012.
  38. ^ "American single certifications – Phillip Phillips – Home". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved October 25, 2012.
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